By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: February 18, 2013
“If you have love for the game, the game will pay you back," James said. "You don’t ever try to cut corners to be successful. You can’t do it. You can't do it in this league, because the game will not give back to you if you try to cut corners and cheat the game.
"MJ loved the game at a high level. And the guys that he played against -- Patrick Ewing and Shaq and Penny Hardaway and Isiah Thomas and Scottie [Pippen] and all those guys, man -- they all loved the game and you saw that. And that's what we have, as well. We have guys that really love the game and we carry what we do at a high level."